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Contains 82 Results:

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding Black Mountain College, poetry, and Charles Olson, 1955 April 20

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1955 April 20

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding Black Mountain College, Dana, and mutual friends, 1955 May 24

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1955 May 24

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding mutual friends, poverty, Dana, and poetry, 1955 June 7

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1955 June 7

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding mutual friends and apartment searching in Boston, 1955 August 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1955 August 11

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding Black Mountain College, French literature, and Michael Rumaker, 1956 August 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1956 August 9

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding Black Mountain College, 1956 August 12

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1956 August 12

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding plays, poetry, and a car accident, 1956 August 19

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1956 August 19

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding mutual friends, the draft, and the Boston poetry scene, 1956 December 11

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1956 December 11

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding Measure, 1957 May 29

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1957 May 29

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding life in San Francisco, 1957 December 19

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1957 December 19

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding mutual friends and Wieners's temporary address, 1958 April 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 61
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1958 April 9

Wieners, John to Robert W. Greene regarding a split with Dana and progress over the last eight years, 1958 April 12

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 62
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 1958 April 12

Greene, Robert W. to Pamela Petro regarding her article in Boston College Magazine on John Wieners and his friendship with Wieners, 2001 November 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 63
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: 2001 November 5

Petro, Pamela to Robert W. Greene regarding her article in Boston College Magazine on John Wieners, 2001 November 16

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 2001 November 16

Greene, Robert W., notes on Wieners's correspondence, circa 2008

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 65
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 2008

Black Mountain College and State University of New York at Buffalo fliers for Charles Olson seminars and colloquiums, 1953, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 66
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1953, 1965

Olson, Charles. "This," broadside inscribed to John Wieners, 1952 - 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 67
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1952 - 1952

Olson, Charles. "Variations Done for Gerry Vande Wiele," typescript annotate by Olson and Wieners, circa 1956

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 68
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 1956

Olson, Charles. "(Decensus Spiritus #1) / She Who Hits at Will," typescript, circa 1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 69
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 1957

Olson, Charles. "To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things of Which He Has Written Us in His 'Brief an Creeley und Olson,' " carbon copy, circa 1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 70
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 1957

Olson, Charles. "1875," photocopy, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 71
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: undated

Rumaker, Michael. "In the harsh morning light . . .," manuscript, circa 1955-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 72
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 1955-1957

Tish newletter, 1964 May

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 73
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: 1964 May

Wieners, John. "Notes from Pound and Fenollosa's Essay 'The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry,'" typescript, circa 1955-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 74
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Dates: circa 1955-1957

Wieners, John. Notes on a lecture, possibly by Charles Olson, annotated typescript, circa 1955-1957

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 75
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Wieners collection includes correspondence between John Wieners and his friend and mentor Charles Olson, with whom Wieners studied at Black Mountain College. Their letters date between 1955 and 1967 and discuss poetry, metaphysical concerns, the literary scene in Boston and New York, Black Mountain College, mutual friends, and fellow poets including Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Gerrit Lansing, Frank O'Hara, Michael Rumaker, and Jack Spicer. There is...
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Collection is open for research.

Dates: circa 1955-1957